I got my copy of Fuuraiki 3 finally and a few people wanted some impressions. First, I knew the game was a visual novel, but it's really a visual novel. There's a ton of text, which isn't really surprising I guess, but there's a lot of text and dialogue before you ever get to the travel portion of the game. With zero or very limited knowledge of Japanese, a ton of the game will be lost and tedious. Even with a little more moderate understanding, there's a lot I don't know without having to look up kanji. So far all of the spoken dialogue other than your character is fully voiced, so that helps a lot.
The traveling part is much easier to figure out, and is actually really enjoyable and relaxing. You pick directions as you travel along roads (left, right, forward, turn around) to choose your direction, and sometimes there are spots you can stop and explore a bit off the motorcycle. Even without fully understanding all of the text or dialogue, it's still pretty easy to get a sense of what's going on, and the game is super charming even though it's mostly static photographs. The map of Hokkaido seems really dense with spots to stop at. You can take photographs of pretty much any scene and then at night, select which ones to upload along with a blog post of the day's activities.
I'm way into the travel part of the game and interacting with the characters, but it's pretty difficult to understand everything because of the sheer volume of text and dialogue. It's a tough recommendation because of that unless your Japanese knowledge is far better than mine, but if you don't mind that part, the travel and exploration stuff is still pretty interesting and enjoyable.